The Founding Father's and Acts 2 - You Can't Secularize History

It was breakfast.  The kids and I were having a discussion about the founders of our constitution and chose Benjamin Rush as our man of history to study this morning.  Mr. Rush was a devout Christian and God prophesied through him in a dream about his friends, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.  Mr. Rush wrote a letter to his friend, John, telling him what God had revealed to him about the future, about his relationship with Thomas Jefferson. He went so far as to tell Mr. Adams that God revealed to him, in this dream, that they would both die on the same day - 50 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence. This prophesy was fulfilled.  

American history boring? I don't think so.  The kids and I reflected upon other empires we'd studied in the last three years, from ancient times through the Dark Ages then through the Middle Ages.  God's hand was moving continually, as he raised and deposed of leaders and nations.  Now, here we are in America, where God had arranged a group of men to form a government, men who were deeply Christian and moved by the Spirit in their relationships and actions.   Over the last 50 years these truths about our government have been removed from common knowledge in America through the process of "education". 

Next, the boys and I connected this prophesy to it's foundation, where the gifts were first given, in Acts 2 of the Bible. If you doubt you can teach your children effectively, trust God.  He is the giver of wisdom and He provides it when you need it.  It was just today that I truly grasped and felt what Acts 2 looked like, not little "tongues of fire hovering over the heads of the crowd, but a sweeping wind like arms reaching out and laying hands right on the people - grabbing them with power, infilling them until they overflowed! Tongues stick out, don't they!  (Ask your kids to show you for comic relief.) Remember the Passover account, when the wind came through the streets? This story is similar but instead of bringing death, it brings life, joy and understanding.  I encourage you to watch the video link below on Acts 2.  It's powerful. 

Take a moment to reflect on truth.  How important IS truth?  How can we effectively teach history and religion apart from one another, let alone values? (Did you learn that our government's formation was only about taxation without representation?  I did. I know I would have paid attention in history if I'd learned it this way.  I also would have seen God's power in a mighty way through it's study.  I was cheated, were you?


Teach your children real history, true history... God's hand is all through it... there is NO history apart from God...  

Wallbuilder's Segment on Benjamin Rush 

Acts 2 - This is where it all began!  

Worship together! Just get up and dance to this... you won't be able to help it.  


Enjoy teaching your children today. You are blessed.  You are free.  This is America and we can live our faith every day and study it as it really happened.  Today you can inspire them in a direction.  What seeds will you plant? What fruit will it bear? Let this truth take root in you in a powerful way so that generations will be blessed through your efforts.  

All honor and praise to God for what He teaches me daily.